# My wife ran into someone online she last saw 72 years ago **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 22, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-ran-into-someone-online-she-last-saw-72-years-ago/921259 "2020-09-22T20:18:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-ran-into-someone-online-she-last-saw-72-years-ago/921259/1 "2020-09-22T20:18:34Z")
My wife is from the Sheepshead Bay area of Brooklyn. She reads a web site from the NY Transit Museum (cool place I’ve been to a few times). Some commenter asked about people’s favorite subway stop. She replied giving one near where she grew up. Someone responded asking her where she lived. They exchanged a couple notes and then she asked where he went to school. PS 225, same as her. Then she remarked that her father was a shop teacher there; did he remember him? He sure did. And then he said that her father, on discovering that he was a serious pianist, invited him to their apartment to play some piano and that there was a girl there. Was it her and did she remember? Yes, she was ten years old but she certainly remembered the occasion. Mundane and pointless, but what a coincidence! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-ran-into-someone-online-she-last-saw-72-years-ago/921259/2 "2020-09-22T20:20:28Z")
Pretty cool! See, social media isn’t all that bad. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-ran-into-someone-online-she-last-saw-72-years-ago/921259/3 "2020-09-22T20:23:45Z")
I am facebook friends with a first cousin once removed, whom I was aware of, but have never met. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-ran-into-someone-online-she-last-saw-72-years-ago/921259/4 "2020-09-22T22:10:23Z")
I found my SO had half-siblings she never knew about on a genealogy site and contacted them on Facebook. Took a full sibling to contact them to hear anything from 'em. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-ran-into-someone-online-she-last-saw-72-years-ago/921259/5 "2020-09-23T02:56:48Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > She reads a web site from the NY Transit Museum (cool place I’ve been to a few times). Been there. I agree, cool place. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveroptic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiveroptic/32/8257_2.png) [@Fiveroptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveroptic)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-ran-into-someone-online-she-last-saw-72-years-ago/921259/6 "2020-09-23T13:53:00Z")
Hari, I needed a story like this today. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-ran-into-someone-online-she-last-saw-72-years-ago/921259/7 "2020-09-23T16:37:40Z")
I just reconnected on Facebook with someone I haven’t seen or thought about in 50 years. This has happened to me several times. There is an active Facebook page for the neighborhood I lived in as a child.